In 1970, after having appeared earlier in a pivotal one-hour musical special called “Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman”, Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom centered on Moore to CBS. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series. The premise of the single working woman’s life, alternating during the program between work and home, became a television staple that would often be used in the future.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: A Friend in Deed An old friend uses a childhood relationship as Mary’s campmate to introduce herself into the lives of Mary, Rhoda, and the entire newsroom.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Five Minute Dress Mary’s initial excitement over going out with the governor’s executive adviser begins to wane after he repeatedly calls off date after date at the last minute.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: You’ve Got a Friend Mary’s father is having trouble adjusting to his new life in the city because he misses his old buddies, so Mary invites him to lunch with her and Lou Grant.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Slaughter Affair Murray’s plan to surprise his wife, Marie, with an expensive foreign car backfires when the second job he takes to earn extra money makes him too tired to work his day job.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Georgette Story Mary and Rhoda decide it’s time they have a heart-to-heart talk with Georgette, since it appears that Ted is taking his new girlfriend way too much for granted.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Anchorman Overboard A speaking engagement for television newsman Ted Baxter turns into a disastrous experience.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: It Was a Fascination, I Know Mary suddenly finds herself in the uncomfortable position of being the “other woman” after Phyllis’s daughter’s 15-year old boyfriend develops a crush on her.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Smokey the Bear Wants You Rhoda falls in love with a successful man who has resigned his lucrative position to study to become a forest ranger.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Murray Faces Life Murray sinks into a deep depression and feels life has totally passed him by after he learns that a former writing classmate has won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Didn’t You Used To Be…Wait…Don’t Tell Me Rhoda comes along to Mary’s high school reunion where Mary is not only needled about being single, but also bumps into her least favorite ex-boyfriend, Howard Arnell.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Mary Richards and the Incredible Plant Lady Mary and Rhoda’s friendship is strained after Rhoda borrows money to set up her new plant store and then doesn’t pay Mary back.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Love is All Around Mary Richards says goodbye to a four-year romance and hello to a new career in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: What Do You Do When the Boss Says, “I Love You”? Lou Grant realizes he’s in over his head when the new boss at the Television station turns out to be a woman—who promptly falls in love with him.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Support Your Local Mother Rhoda’s mother pays a visit to Minneapolis, but Rhoda refuses to see her.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Lou’s Place Lou achieves a lifelong dream when he becomes the owner of his favorite bar, but he quickly realizes he just doesn’t have what it takes to keep the customers coming back for more.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Keep Your Guard Up An ex-professional football player seeking a job as a sports announcer decides to attach himself to Mary.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Who’s in Charge Here? Lou’s promotion to program manager leaves Murray in charge of the newsroom, a task which (it is quickly apparent!) he is totally unqualified to handle.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Some Of My Best Friends Are Rhoda Mary questions her new friendship with the polished Joanne Forbes after she discovers the woman doesn’t want to invite Rhoda to her country club because Rhoda is Jewish.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Just Around the Corner When Mary’s parents move into a new house just around the corner from her apartment and then start planning her social schedule, Mary turns to Rhoda for advice.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: …Is A Friend In Need When Rhoda is fired from her job as a window-dresser, Mary tries to help her find new work – just as long as it isn’t the job that just became available at WJM.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Romeo and Mary Rhoda’s boyfriend finds the perfect guy for Mary, but unfortunately the guy is a bit overzealous in his intent to marry Mary and won’t take no for an answer.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: He’s No Heavy, He’s My Brother The success of Mary and Rhoda’s vacation to Mexico depends on whether they’re willing to deliver a mysterious package across the border for an owner of a Mexican restaurant.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Enter Rhoda’s Parents Rhoda is shocked when her parents arrive for a visit and her mother reveals that she’s convinced her husband is seeing another woman.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: 1040 or Fight Mary Richards decides that honesty is the best policy when she learns that her income tax return is about to be audited.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Rhoda the Beautiful Even though she’s lost 20 pounds, Rhoda still feels fat and hopeless, but then Hempel’s Department Store invites her to enter a beauty contest.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Bob & Rhoda & Teddy & Mary Rhoda finally finds a boyfriend, but when she introduces him he becomes more interested in Mary.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: But Seriously, Folks Mary tries to help out when the station’s “Chuckles the Clown” writer quits his job in order to fulfill his lifelong ambition of performing as a stand-up comedian.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Toulousse Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists Mary becomes romantically involved with an author who is at least a foot shorter than she is.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: What is Mary Richards Really Like? A local newspaper columnist, who Lou is convinced loves to destroy people’s reputations, interviews Mary about being the only woman in the newsroom at WJM.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Second Story Story Mary loses most of her possessions in two apartment burglaries.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Rhoda Morgenstern: Minneapolis to New York Mary is devastated when Rhoda returns from a vacation in New York and announces she’s accepted a job and will be leaving Minneapolis for the Big Apple.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Just a Lunch Mary finds herself becoming romantically involved with a married man.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: It’s Whether You Win or Lose When Lou is kept from joining his poker pals in Las Vegas, he insists Mary set up a poker game at work—much to the dismay of ex-compulsive gambler Murray.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: We Closed in Minneapolis After numerous Broadway rejections, a newsroom friend’s play is finally produced by the Twin Cities Playhouse.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Rememberance of Things Past Against her better judgment, Mary gets drawn back into a romantic affair when an ex-boyfriend who broke her heart returns to Minneapolis.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Put on a Happy Face Once Mary gets nominated for a Teddy Award everything starts going disastrously wrong for her at work—and at the awards dinner.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: My Brother’s Keeper Phyllis schemes to have her brother fall in love and get married to Mary, but her plans go awry when her brother falls for Rhoda instead.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Rhoda The fire that destroys Rhoda’s apartment almost destroys her friendship with Mary after the two friends attempt to live together while Rhoda’s apartment is being repaired.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Good-Time News Both Lou and Ted are unhappy about the upbeat “happy news” format Mary has been assigned to develop for the “Six O’Clock News.”
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary A newswriters’ strike leaves Mary and Lou alone at the WJM station with Mary struggling to write news stories in Murray’s place, and Lou stuttering to deliver it on camera.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Farmer Ted and the News Lou realizes he’s made a big mistake after he signs a new contract that allows Ted to earn extra money appearing in TV commercials on several local television stations.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Room 223 Mary decides to take a television journalism course at night school and while she doesn’t get the best grades, she does end up getting a few dates from her instructor.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Courtship of Mary’s Father’s Daughter Mary once again finds herself cast in the role of the “other woman” when an ex-boyfriend invites her to his engagement party—much to the dismay of his new fiancée.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: More Than Neighbors When the apartment directly below Mary’s becomes available, she happily spreads the word at the television station – until Ted expresses an interest in moving in.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Have I Found a Guy For You If Mary is crushed when she learns the marriage of her long-time friends is coming to an end, she’s stunned when she realizes the husband wants to start dating her after the divorce.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: And Now, Sitting In For Ted Baxter A terrified Ted finds himself pleading for his job after his temporary vacation replacement, Rod Porter, rockets the station’s newscast from last to second place in the ratings.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Operation: Lou Mary’s put in charge after Lou goes to have surgery to remove some World War II shrapnel, a move which causes a different kind of war to break out in the newsroom.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Feeb Mary feels guilty when her complaint gets a waitress named Randy fired. So when Randy applies for a job at the station, Mary hires her, only to learn firsthand the meaning of true incompetence.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Ted Over Heels Mary explains the facts of life and love to Ted when he falls head over heels in love with the daughter of Chuckles the Clown, Betty Bowerchuck, after appearing on Chuckles’ show.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Assistant Wanted, Female Mary Richards hires her friend Phyllis as her newsroom assistant with disastrous results.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: I Am Curious Cooper Lou sets up a blind date with Mary and one of his old friends, Mike Cooper, then has second thoughts and decides he’d better go along as a chaperone.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Snow Must Go On A heavy snowstorm on election night forces a very nervous Mary Richards to produce her first television news show.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Square Shaped Room When Lou needs help finding an interior decorator, Mary’s suggestion that he hire Rhoda results in a hilarious conflict of tastes – and costs.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Party is Such Sweet Sorrow Mary sadly prepares to leave her newsroom friends to start on a new job.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Don’t Break The Chain When Mary receives a chain letter from Lou and is warned not to break the chain, she struggles to find a way to pass it along without generating undesirable consequences.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Howard’s Girl The mother of Mary’s date becomes very upset because she believes Mary is engaged to her other son.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: His Two Right Arms Mary helps an incompetent city councilman, Pete Peterson, prepare for his interview on WJM’s “Face the People,” but it turns out his ignorance perfectly suits the interviewer: Ted.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Hi! Mary goes into the hospital for a minor operation and draws a cantankerous roommate.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: You Certainly Are A Big Boy After several dates with a handsome architect, Matt Bryan, Mary is shocked when his 24-year-old son shows up at her office to take her to lunch.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Divorce Isn’t Everything To qualify for group rates for a trip to Paris, Mary and Rhoda join a club for divorced people.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Care And Feeding Of Parents Mary finds herself in a sticky situation when her landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom, asks for help in getting an essay her daughter Bess wrote for English class published.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Boss Isn’t Coming to Dinner Mary’s boss Lou and his wife separate and Mary becomes involved when he asks for advice.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Birds…and…um…Bess When Mary produces a documentary called, “What’s Your Sexual I.Q.?,” the station gets swamped with calls, and she is asked by her landlady, Phyllis, to teach her daughter, Bess, about the “facts of life.”
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: He’s All Yours Mary is forced to hold off the romantic advances of a young cameraman at the television station.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Six-and-a-Half Year Itch Lou takes Mary and Rhoda to a movie while his wife is out of town and ends up bumping into his favorite son-in-law, Bill Phelps, who is also out with another woman.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid Mary’s elaborate holiday plans are cancelled when she learns she must work on Christmas Day.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Baby-Sit-Com Mary has agreed to babysit her landlady’s daughter, Bess, for the weekend, but when her old flame, “Sandy,” surprises her with a date, she finds an unlikely substitute in the form of Lou.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Bess, You Is My Daughter Now Against her will, Mary finds herself the adoptive mother of her next door neighbor’s child.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Cover Boy When Ted’s competitive and successful, model brother, Hal, comes to town, Ted tries to impress him by introducing Mary as his girlfriend.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The 45-Year-Old Man Lou Grant is fired when the news show ratings drop, and a new manager takes over the television station.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: A Girl’s Best Mother Is Not Her Friend Rhoda’s mother, Ida, comes to visit, and after seeing Phyllis’ relationship with Bess, decides to bridge the generation gap by becoming Rhoda’s new best friend.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Today I am a Ma’am Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern are distressed at being 30 and single and decide to do something about it.
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